Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 Labor Day Speech and related media

Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 Labor Day Speech

In his Labor Day radio broadcast in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt reminds his fellow citizens of the need to devote America’s industrial effort to building weaponry in order to "crush Hitler and his Nazi forces."

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